Word: pedantingly
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Raptista Charles Leatherbee, '29 Vincentio D. W. Moreland, '28 Luncentio H. W. B. Donegan E.T.C. Petruchio K. A. Perry, '28 Gremio J. L. Beauchamp, '28 Hortensio A. S. Gerstein, '30 Tranio Adele Wood, Radcliffe Biondello C. A. Hicks, ocC. Grumio G. B. Bingham, '28 Curtis Margaret Effinger, Radcliffe A Pedant G. W. Harrington, '27 Katharina Frances Small, Radcliffe Bianca Mary Caperton, Radcliffe Widow Corlis Wilbuy, Radcliffe...
...disastrous and deadening effects on some men as teachers no one who has suffered under the teacher-pedant will need much convincing. to expect a man to be a research worker as well as a teacher is about as logical as to demand that a goldsmith should also dig the gold he fashions. With the profoundest respect for Linguistics and for those possessing that aptitude, one is compelled to admit that it is a highly specialized study, and many a man possessing a wide knowledge of English Literature and a sincere appreciation of its beauty has lived and died...
...inspirational teacher must of necessity, be an interior scholar. It seems to students that just the opposite is true: that the highest scholarship is that which is riches in human values and that the presence of this additional human quality is that which distinguishes the scholar teacher from the pedant of the old Germanic school...
...spring inclines the pedant heart...
...Significance. Pedant, poet, playwright and teller of tales, each after his manner has dealt more or less faithfully with the tragic story of the pitiful Queen of Scots. Mr. Hume applies the scientific method; avoids the Charybdis of sentimentality and the Scylla of puritanism; achieves clarity and justice. The men who loved her were beyond counting, she had many suitors?but once only, as it seems, Mary had a love affair of her own. The others were merely scarlet threads woven into the texture of her ambition to succeed Elizabeth as England's queen and to restore the Catholic church...